We all know I hate spam. I hate marketing. I hate talking about what I’m doing.

But.

I love making games.

So. Of course, in the middle of my 2016 schedule, I decided to spend three months making five more games.

Five more GMless games that use a new system, very different from Protocol. Sure. You can see some Protocol in there. But not really. I’ve borrowed the language of scene-framing and scene-types, but that’s where the similarities end.

In fact, my upcoming game Last 12 Hours, will be borrowing from Protocol as well.

But that’s tangential. You want to know about this project. Right?

There are five games in this series. The first is called King of Storms. That sounds suitably over the top and masculine. Right?

(Maybe Blooddrinking King of Storms of Doom would have been a better title)

And then there’s Lambs, which is only available until the end of the Kickstarter. After that… it’s gone forever.

I feel as though that should convince you to at least go check it out.

Board Game Geek has a series of draconian rules about what and WHAT NOT can be posted on their website, so I’m making the rules to dice crawl available here. For free.

If you don’t know what dice crawl is, it’s a board game I designed about dungeon-crawling with a fistful of dice. And yes. It actually has a strategy element. If you’re interested in learning more, you can look it up on Board Game Geek.

So. I was told the old site didn’t look user friendly. And now I’m trying out this new look. I might tinker until I land on something stunning, but I think this is a better way to go to make the site look ‘happier.’

In other news, I’m developing a new GMless story-game system.

The first game will be book only and available ONLY in kickstarter format, once it’s done. That means if you don’t buy game 0 from the kickstarter, you’ll never get a copy. This will be a test of the new system. Players will be encouraged to provide feedback on the game and help shape games 1 through 10.

Here’s a look at the cover.

That’s it for now. Remember. I’m on facebook, twitter, and e-mail. If you’re not seeing it here, you can always ask me questions there.

The Goblin is a story roleplaying game about dark nobility in a mythic land. The thirteen great goblin tribes have gathered to elect a new leader. To end the suffering of the ages, someone must unite the tribes — the once-noble blood of the goblins. Flesh-made-whole and all that.

But alas, each goblin believes he or she deserves to be leader. As the saying goes, “princes to the last.” No goblin wants to serve under the foot of the throne, when so easily he or she can rule as king or queen. But the Fates will cast the final die in this ‘contest’ to be the true goblin monarch.

What the Fates decree is law.

The Goblin is a sister game to Lady Winter, set in the land of myth. These are not the snot-nosed goblins of standard fantasy convention, but ‘noble savages.’

Post World Games has announced the release of Corsets & Goggles, a new roleplaying game using the Dramatic Game Engine. This engine will appear in several future Post World Games products. Corsets & Goggles features a unique spin on Steampunk by bringing together everyone’s favorite Victorian tropes onto Airships. Players take on the roles of noble gentlemen and ladies, dressing in the finest clothes, drinking the finest wines, and visiting the finest locales. With suspicion and intrigue lurking behind every corner, Corsets & Goggles is rife with conflict and meaning.

The Dramatic Game Engine allows players to tailor characters theywant, without spending hours doing it. And get to the heart of the game, without hours of arguments. After choosing from a short list of archetypes, players select skills, talents, traits, relationships, and weaknesses to give life to their concepts. Questions at every step in the character creation process ensure no two characters are alike, though everyone is dedicated to adventure.

Jim Pinto reports on why this project is so dear to him. “I was skeptical about Steampunk at first. I didn’t really understand the value of it. But ever since Mark Quire and I sat down and examined why everyone loved it, we started to cobble together something that could really make us some money. By exploiting something people love and meshing all those features together without consideration of meaning, we really felt we were onto something.”

The built-in campaign for Corsets & Goggles is unlike any you’ve ever seen. It forces players to work together against a gamut of terrorizing obstacles and moral complexities, begging the question… “are they heroes or really awesome heroes?” Including a chapter laden with notorious NPCs, Corsets & Goggles offers a game world that entertains, excites, and panders to its players.

“The equipment lists alone could sink an Pendleton Airship,” remarked Quire. “The character classes are so rich and in-depth, we invented a whole new kind of spreadsheet called the Steamsheet™. I can’t wait for everyone to start using them.”

With a Kickstarter slated for mid-2016, Corsets & Goggles will be the first of several releases in 2016 utilizing the Dramatic Game Engine.

I did get 30 Protocol games finished this year. I did make six decks of Cards Against Things expansion decks.

I did make some d100 charts.

And I did drop the ball a lot.

My prediction and plan is to be out of the woods by the first quarter of next year, completing all the past kickstarter projects and start pushing my three new RPG game systems.

Yes. Three.

What am I stupid?

Probably.

The art at the top of this post doesn’t even count as one of those three.
It’s just something I need to finish and get out of my system.

For the record, if I had just one helper monkey on development and another doing marketing (half-time), Post World Games would be a very different company.

The quality would certainly not change, but the releases and schedules would be less “based on my whim” and more “look at these near-finished 20 games, let’s get them released.”

How’s that for a bumper sticker slogan?

I want to take a moment now to say a few things. And I’m not joking around here. I mean what I’m about to say.

I f**king love what I do. I don’t really make a living wage, but f**king love it. If anyone questions my passion, you can just divest yourself of interest in what Post World Games does next.

I don’t get a lot of accolades to keep me going like some of the bigger companies, but I don’t get a lot of the detractors, either. I keep going because of said passion. Sometimes it wanes. And sometimes it waxes.

Okay. That sounded weird.

But.

There’s a few people who really deserve a shout-out for all their support over the years.

Martijn Tolsma. Hands down the best friend I’ve made since starting PWG. I love you, man.

Timothy Hidalgo. An amazing supporter who gets it.

Diana. She knows why. But half of this wouldn’t work without her support.

Derrick Swedelius. I can’t figure you out, but you’re alright in my book.

Same goes for David Vincent Zumsteg.

Everyone at Tracon X in Finland who took such good care of me in September and made me their guest of honor. That’s never happened before.

Allie Heenie. Always available for brainstorming and editing help. Thank you for never being a jerk about it.

Ben Woerner. Technically he’s my competition because he’s more successful and talented then I am, but he never ignores me online, regardless of how pedantic

A dozen other friends who are the reason I do this.

This year ended with two short, but fun kickstarters. The second kickstarter was $1 and found nearly 1500 people backing the prospects of a jim pinto roleplaying game. Tomorrow, we’ll narrow the list down and see what the title of that game will be.

In the mean time, thanks again for following and supporting my efforts. Have a great new year.